Re: Stupid JCL trick?

2012-02-24 Thread Scott Ford
Gil, Maybe some mumbo jumbo too... Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 24, 2012, at 10:43 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:58:50 -0500, Scott Ford wrote: > >> Hey Gil, >> >> Is the IF/THEN assuming, big word here, that the 1 i

Re: Stupid JCL trick?

2012-02-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:58:50 -0500, Scott Ford wrote: >Hey Gil, > >Is the IF/THEN assuming, big word here, that the 1 is a return code, just a >thought > >> On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:52:38 -0500, Bill Ashton wrote: >>> >>> In the JCL I start with a do-nothing BR14, and then surround each section >>>

Re: Thought: new DISP "status" function

2012-02-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:48:57 -0800, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >I'm not clear on what you are doing here.  Are you saying this is somehow a >replacement for this? //REUSE   EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //MYFILE  DD DSN=MY.FILE,SPACE=(0,0),DISP=(MOD,DELETE) //MYPGM   EXEC PGM=MYPGM //MYFILE  DD DSN=MY.FILE,SPACE

Re: Thought: new DISP "status" function

2012-02-24 Thread Frank Swarbrick
I'm not clear on what you are doing here.  Are you saying this is somehow a replacement for this? //REUSE   EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //MYFILE  DD DSN=MY.FILE,SPACE=(0,0),DISP=(MOD,DELETE) //MYPGM   EXEC PGM=MYPGM //MYFILE  DD DSN=MY.FILE,SPACE=(CYL,(100,10),RLSE),DISP=(NEW,CATLG) How would this look usi

Re: What is the justification for not using Trusted Key Entry (TKE) workstation?

2012-02-24 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:43:32 +0100, R.S. wrote: >Back to the question: Who don't use TKE? I bet (and I'm pretty sure of >that) all the shops in Poland do not use TKE. >Justification: MONEY. No real need to use TKE. It has been my opinion for several years that entering the master keys is a hardw

Re: Hiper Dispatching

2012-02-24 Thread Knutson, Sam
Current thoughts from IBM ATS which can probably be considered canon on this http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101229 My thoughts for what they are worth. You may not see a large amount of benefit now with your configuration on a z10 but it is probably the right di

Re: Stupid JCL trick?

2012-02-24 Thread Don Leahy
One of my favourite tricks is to use the ISPF editor to Exclude the lines I don't want, and then issue the SUB NX command. Only the JCL in the non-excluded lines will be submitted. On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:58, Scott Ford wrote: > Hey Gil, > > Is the IF/THEN assuming, big word here, that the 1

Re: Hiper Dispatching

2012-02-24 Thread Brian Peterson
> We have a 2097-504(E12). Does anyone know if turing on Hiper Dispatching > on a single book box machine would make a difference in performance? According to "IBM System z10 Business Class Technical Overview" http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247632.pdf at page 153-154 in topic 7.3.12

Re: Hiper Dispatching

2012-02-24 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Yes, like your cars, you put them in the parking place if you don't need them. If you have 4 online processors and you have only work for 2 or 3, it is more efficient to park #4 and dispatch the work to only 3 processors. That's what hyperdispatch does (amongst others). Kees. "gsg" wrote in mess

Re: Hiper Dispatching

2012-02-24 Thread gsg
Parking? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Hiper Dispatching

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Packer
I'd've said there was an additional benefit through parking of logical engines. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: ht

Re: Hiper Dispatching

2012-02-24 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
"Bob Shannon" wrote in message news:<58FC7F986FCB804286E23B59DECF420F334E6230@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware .com>... > > Does anyone know if turning on Hiper Dispatching on a single book box machine would make a >difference in performance? > > The answer is yes, but I believe with your configuration

Re: VARY ON/ VARY OFF COMMAND IN BATCH

2012-02-24 Thread John Dawes
Yes.  I have authorization.  From: "Veilleux, Jon L" To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2012 1:06 PM Subject: Re: VARY ON/ VARY OFF COMMAND IN BATCH Did you check to see if you had console authority? -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: VARY ON/ VARY OFF COMMAND IN BATCH

2012-02-24 Thread John Dawes
Yes.  I tried Alan Starr's suggestion and it worked. From: Itschak Mugzach To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2012 1:20 PM Subject: Re: VARY ON/ VARY OFF COMMAND IN BATCH Did you CONSPROFed the console first? ITschak On Thu, Feb 23, 201

Re: Hiper Dispatching

2012-02-24 Thread Bob Shannon
> Does anyone know if turning on Hiper Dispatching on a single book box machine > would make a >difference in performance? The answer is yes, but I believe with your configuration the answer is no. Hiper Dispatch tries to dispatch the work on a subset of logical processors. Since you only have

Re: Hiper Dispatching

2012-02-24 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Looking for this information, I found these: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/features/ccr2/ccr2-2008-04/article 3.html http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/features/ccr2/ccr2-2008-05/article 5.html Hope this helps, Kees. "gsg" wrote in message news:<7794429104709271.wa.gsg808yahoo@ba

Re: VVDS with no catalog pointers

2012-02-24 Thread retired mainframer
An SMS volume with any SMS managed dataset will also have a VVDS. :>: -Original Message- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On :>: Behalf Of Mike Schwab :>: Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 4:57 AM :>: To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu :>: Subject: Re: VVDS with no

Re: VVDS with no catalog pointers

2012-02-24 Thread retired mainframer
If the VVDS was created automatically by SMS when the first dataset was created on the volume, then it was catalogued in the same catalog as that dataset. Usually, the dataset is a user dataset and the VVDS ends up being catalogued in the corresponding user catalog. However, LISTCAT (which produc

Re: Erasing data on disk volumes (2105-F20)

2012-02-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <003c01ccf1c8$b6b6d390$24247ab0$@net>, on 02/22/2012 at 05:16 PM, Ron Hawkins said: >Of course, I'd expect any claim to refer to current FBA drives >and not a RAMAC I. Why? Or does NSA have a time machine? I would expect them to be more willing to disclose what they can do with old hardwa

Re: DU-AL in IPCS dump

2012-02-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 2/24/2012 9:00 AM, Micheal Butz wrote: Can you please elaborate is this a parameter on VERBEXIT SUMDUMP CR2 is a register on the machine. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http:/

Hiper Dispatching

2012-02-24 Thread gsg
We have a 2097-504(E12). Does anyone know if turing on Hiper Dispatching on a single book box machine would make a difference in performance? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to li

Re: DU-AL in IPCS dump

2012-02-24 Thread Micheal Butz
Can you please elaborate is this a parameter on VERBEXIT SUMDUMP -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 7:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: DU-AL in IPCS dump CR2 -> D

Re: Stupid JCL trick?

2012-02-24 Thread Scott Ford
Hey Gil, Is the IF/THEN assuming, big word here, that the 1 is a return code, just a thought Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 24, 2012, at 8:37 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:52:38 -0500, Bill Ashton wrote: > >> I use thi

Re: HSM Recall Failure

2012-02-24 Thread Staller, Allan
Decode the following to find the explanation: ARC1001I PNGG00.IT3PCK.CSDITB.D0.KS250 RECALL FAILED, RC=0069, REAS=0477 HTH, I'm trying to recall a data set migrated to ML2. The recall fails due to errors found in either the VVDS or VTOC. Is there somebody that would be able to point me in the

Re: Mentor for an Assembler User Exit in CA-1

2012-02-24 Thread Alan Schenck
Same here from me Lizette. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: HSM Recall Failure

2012-02-24 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
As Lizette points out this is a fairly large file, do you have any msgs. in Jeslog such as B-37? What is the value of Volcount? SETSYS VOLCOUNT(ANY) will allow expansion to a secondary volume. ANY specifies for DFSMShsm to pass the VOLCOUNT(ANY) parameter to DFSMSdss during the ARECOVER of data

Re: VVDS with no catalog pointers

2012-02-24 Thread Lizette Koehler
> > A VSAM dataset was never created on that volume. > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Buckton, T. (Theo) wrote: > > Hi There, > > > > Please explain why not all VVDSs catalog pointers. When doing a listcat, the return is > as follows: > > > > IDC3012I ENTRY SYS1.VVDS.VAPBPC7 NOT FOUND+ IDC15

Re: VVDS with no catalog pointers

2012-02-24 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
As these are SMS managed volumes, a VVDS will be allocated with the first dataset allocated to that volume regardless of DSORG. See Defining a VVDS (catalog Volume Data Set) in z/OS V1R11.0 DFSMS Managing Catalogs. Also from the same section: A VVDS is defined with the name SYS1.VVDS.Vvolser, wh

Re: Stupid JCL trick?

2012-02-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:52:38 -0500, Bill Ashton wrote: >I use this sort of trick often for controlling sections of JCL, For >example, I might have a step or two that deletes and allocates files, then >another step that processes data into the new files, and finally a step >that prints report files

Re: VVDS with no catalog pointers

2012-02-24 Thread Mike Schwab
A VSAM dataset was never created on that volume. On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Buckton, T. (Theo) wrote: > Hi There, > > Please explain why not all VVDSs catalog pointers. When doing a listcat, the > return is as follows: > > IDC3012I ENTRY SYS1.VVDS.VAPBPC7 NOT FOUND+ > IDC1566I ** SYS1.VVDS

Re: DU-AL in IPCS dump

2012-02-24 Thread Binyamin Dissen
CR2 -> DUCT On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:35:52 -0500 Micheal Butz wrote: :>In a ipcs dump where can I see a TCBs. DU-AL :> :>Sent from my iPhone :> :>-- :>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, :>send email to

Re: HSM Recall Failure

2012-02-24 Thread Lizette Koehler
> > Hi There, > > I'm trying to recall a data set migrated to ML2. The recall fails due to errors found in > either the VVDS or VTOC. Is there somebody that would be able to point me in the > right direction of investigation > > PAGE 0001 5695-DF175 DFSMSDSS V1R12.0 DATA SET SERVICES 20

Re: HSM Recall Failure

2012-02-24 Thread Buckton, T. (Theo)
And why would the data set shows as online whilst the HSM recall is still in progress? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Buckton, T. (Theo) Sent: 24 February 2012 12:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: HSM Recall Failure

Re: TCP/IP time to indicate error

2012-02-24 Thread Chris Mason
Donald Since you appear to be writing the TCP client program, one way you can provide a "connection timeout" is to set up a non-blocking connect() call and then apply a "timeout" using the select() call. Please note that the greater concentration of expertise in matters to do with the z/OS Com

HSM Recall Failure

2012-02-24 Thread Buckton, T. (Theo)
Hi There, I'm trying to recall a data set migrated to ML2. The recall fails due to errors found in either the VVDS or VTOC. Is there somebody that would be able to point me in the right direction of investigation PAGE 0001 5695-DF175 DFSMSDSS V1R12.0 DATA SET SERVICES 2012.055 11:55 AD

VVDS with no catalog pointers

2012-02-24 Thread Buckton, T. (Theo)
Hi There, Please explain why not all VVDSs catalog pointers. When doing a listcat, the return is as follows: IDC3012I ENTRY SYS1.VVDS.VAPBPC7 NOT FOUND+ IDC1566I ** SYS1.VVDS.VAPBPC7 NOT LISTED IDC0014I LASTCC=4